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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
"All the cases have been removed to hospital and the
premises disinfected."
In this outbreak upwards of 400 cases occurred in the
Boroughs and districts affected, and careful inquiry was made by
the Medical Officers of the London County Council, and also of
the Surrey County Council, in whose district the farm from which
the infected supply was derived, is situated.
As was stated in that report, there are two hypothesis as to
the infection of the milk, one that it had been infected from
human beings, and the other from some condition of the cow or
cows.
The investigation failed to prove the former, but it did not
prove the latter, although it showed the probability that a diseased'
condition of the cow was responsible for the outbreak.
The death-rate was only 04 per 1,000, compared with .06 irk
1908, and with .08 for the whole of London.
Scarlet Fever and Schools.
The next Table shows the number of cases of Scarlet Fever
for each month of the year among children in attendance at
elementary and other schools for each sub-district, also the number
for the whole Borough, the number of cases among persons
not at school, the number attending schools outside the Borough,
as well as the number of cases in which, as far as could be ascertained,
the diagnosis of Scarlet Fever was incorrect.
Of the total number of cases, viz.:—987, the diagnosis was
incorrect in 52 or 5'2 per cent.; 510 or 51.7 per cent. were in
attendance at schools in the Borough; 37 or 3.7 per cent. attended
schools outside the Borough; while 388 or 39.3 per cent. did not
attend school, being either above or under school age.
The percentage of children attending school was as follows:
in Clapham, 116 out of 189, or 61 per cent. were at school; ire